The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
155.99 NZD
185.00 (15% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Ultimate Work of Historical Reference From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the World is the book that has all the answers, the detail and the authoritative text in o ...Show more
Little Britain by Harry Bingham
36.99 NZD
Category: History
Celebratory, witty and incredibly insightful, Harry Bingham explores the eccentricities and customs of the British nation in a bid to answer a question which has everyone debating -- Who are we? For the British, that's an oddly difficult question. Although our national self-assessment usually notes a n ...Show more
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
37.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best wa ...Show more
Liberty: The Life and Times of Six Women of Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
36.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
These remarkable women made their mark on history. Among them are an aristocrat who helped write the 1791 Constitution, a bourgeois housewife turned influential revolutionary, several salon stalwarts, a sexual outlaw and an agitator for women
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
19.99 NZD
Category: History
This is the true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse - Seabiscuit - which encompasses a pivotal moment in American history: its resurrection from the Depression. In 1936, as Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" was published, the habits of 19th-century America were finally consigned ...Show more
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its crea ...Show more
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
25.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of ...Show more
The "Times" History of Europe by *
54.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a uniquely clear guide to 3000 years of history. It presents the history of Europe using clear text and full-colour maps. Europe's complex state-system, in which a large number of competing, sovereign, territorial states have been crammed together, pushing and tugging at each other's frontiers, ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge by Paul Preston
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco. No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigu ...Show more
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
28.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London's Natura ...Show more
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass
29.99 NZD
Category: History
An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city's four-year occupation. French troops withdrew ...Show more
God's Secret Agents - Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge
35.00 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. Their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return Engla ...Show more